| Market Rasen | |||||||||||
| Symbol Location: | gb | ||||||||||
| Symbol: | rail | ||||||||||
| Borough: | Market Rasen, West Lindsey | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Coordinates: | 53.384°N -0.337°W | ||||||||||
| Grid Name: | Grid reference | ||||||||||
| Manager: | East Midlands Railway | ||||||||||
| Platforms: | 2 | ||||||||||
| Code: | MKR | ||||||||||
| Classification: | DfT category F1 | ||||||||||
| Footnotes: | Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road | ||||||||||
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Market Rasen railway station serves the market town of Market Rasen in Lincolnshire, England.
It was built by the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway, with the opening of the line, in 1848.[1] The station was a substantial structure with an overall roof below which all the usual station facilities could be found including a W. H. Smith bookstall. The station buildings are Grade II listed.
It is the only station now between Lincoln and Barnetby, but in the past there were many more (these mainly succumbed to the Beeching Axe in 1965). The signal box which was at the south end of the Lincoln platform was removed to Great Central Railway (heritage railway) at Quorn and re-erected in 1987.
Nowadays it is on the "Grimsby - Lincoln - Newark" line and is managed by East Midlands Railway.
The typical off-peak service is one train every two hours in each direction between and via and . A number of late evening services continue beyond Grimsby Town to and from .
On Sundays, the station is served by three trains per day in each direction between Cleethorpes and Nottingham during the summer months only. No services call at the station on Sundays during the winter months.